At times the fight for press freedom can become quite depressing. Right now in China, for example, state propaganda is convincing the people that the Olympic torch-relay protests are against them and their nation, rather than their self-appointed government’s system of social and political suppression.

And the picture is equally distressing in China’s chronically liberty-impaired client-states like North Korea, Burma, Laos and Cuba, plus other countries coming increasingly under its economic influence, like Sudan and Zimbabwe.